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    The Anik satellites are a series of geostationary communications satellites launched for Telesat Canada for television, voice and data in Canada and other...
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  • anik in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Anik may refer to: Anik (satellite), satellites launched by Canadian telecommunications company Telesat Anik...
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    Skynet coverage was extended eastward, and in conjunction with an Anik G1 satellite module over America, Skynet offers near global coverage. The Skynet...
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    Primestar satellite TV service. Some satellites have been launched that have transponders in the Ka band, such as DirecTV's SPACEWAY-1 satellite, and Anik F2...
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  • Shaw Direct (category Direct broadcast satellite services)
    broadcasts on Ku band from two communications satellites: Anik G1 at 107.3°W, and Anik F2 at 111.1°W. Anik F1R, which had been in service for 15 years,...
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    Telesat (category Direct broadcast satellite services)
    launched Anik A1 in 1972 as the world's first domestic communications satellite in geostationary orbit operated by a commercial company; this satellite was...
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  • channel that broadcast the House of Commons of Canada proceedings via Anik satellite to Canadian cable television headends between September 1979 and 1992...
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    geostationary Anik 1, which was launched on 9 November 1972. ATS-6, the world's first experimental educational and direct broadcast satellite (DBS), was...
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    Pelmorex. The two originally shared an analogue transponder on one of the Anik satellites, with computer-generated local forecasts airing on one while the video...
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    Internet-ready satellite for consumers was launched in September 2003. In 2004, with the launch of Anik F2, the first high throughput satellite, a class of...
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